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Architecture & Construction

Heraeus Carbon Infrared Oven Boosts Powder Coating Quality

It has allowed the Leeds-based company to change powder curing from a continuous to a batch operation, so that it can now respond more quickly to customer…

Materials Sciences

Triazine-Based Carbon Nitride: A New Era for 2D Semiconductors

However, graphene is not a semiconductor. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, an international team of researchers has now introduced a carbon nitride, a…

Life & Chemistry

Streamlined Peptide Synthesis: Simplifying Complex Processes

The synthesis of peptides and proteins is an extremely complex matter, because they must be built up one amino acid at a time in repeated reaction and washing…

Life & Chemistry

Crop science booms in 'The Triangle' and strives to address population growth

A recent growth spurt promises intense new research with the potential to transform how — and how well — the world is fed, says an article in Chemical &…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Smart Surfactants: Boosting Sustainable Agriculture Practices

If the agricultural industry is to be competitive and profitable, we need plant protection products that protect the plants against fungal and insect attack….

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Temporal Dominance of Sensations in Ice Cream Innovation

In the last five years a technique known as 'Temporal Dominance of Sensations' (TDS) has become popular, used to analyse how consumer impressions evolve from…

Health & Medicine

Saturated fat intake may influence a person's expression of genetic obesity risk

In a new study, researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University identified 63 gene variants…

Physics & Astronomy

Texas Telescope Sees Light From Ancient Star Explosion

Intense light from the enormous explosion of a star more than 12 billion years ago — shortly after the Big Bang — recently reached Earth and was visible in the…

Physics & Astronomy

Neutrinos: New Insights Challenge Standard Model of Physics

Neutrinos are tiny, neutral elementary particles that, contrary to the standard model of physics, have been proven to have mass. One possible explanation for…

Medical Engineering

New Imaging Techniques Show Safety in Liver and Breast Tests

Using computer simulations, imaging the liver and breast with gamma or neutron radiation was found to be safe, delivering levels of radiation on par with…

Environmental Conservation

Red Tide: How Marine Algae Compete for Survival

Marine algae fight other species of algae for nutrients and light, and, ultimately, survival. The algae that cause red tides, the algal blooms that color blue…

Physics & Astronomy

First Thorne-Zytkow Object Discovered: A Unique Hybrid Star

In a discovery decades in the making, scientists have detected the first of a “theoretical” class of stars first proposed in 1975 by physicist Kip Thorne and…

Studies and Analyses

New Antibiotic Dalbavancin Effective for Skin Infections

A study published in today's New England Journal of Medicine reports that the antibiotic dalbavancin is as effective as vancomycin, the current…

Health & Medicine

Hemorrhagic Fevers Can Be Caused by Body’s Antiviral Interferon Response

But now, virologists and immunologists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a major clue to the mystery of “hemorrhagic fever” syndromes. In…

Earth Sciences

NASA Captures Boris Moving Over Mexico with Heavy Rainfall

On June 3 at 19:15 UTC (3:15 p.m. EDT) the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible…

Architecture & Construction

New Roof Tiles Clean the Air: Innovation from UC Riverside

A team of University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering students created a roof tile coating that when applied to an average-sized…

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